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Gillingham F.C.
Gillingham F.C. (The Gills), Kent's only Football League club, founded 1893 as New Brompton, playing at Priestfield Stadium in League Two; Fourth Division champions 1964, League Two champions 2013, owned by Brad Galinson since 2022, managed by Gareth Ainsworth.
Gillingham, England
Gillingham, England: a town in north west Kent, one of the five Medway towns on the Medway estuary. Birthplace of Will Adams, twinned with Ito and Yokosuka, Japan; former dockyard town of about 108,000 residents.
Gillock Island
Gillock Island is an ice-covered island on the eastern side of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, named for USN Lieutenant Robert A. Gillock in 1952.
Gillon McLachlan
Gillon McLachlan, AFL chief executive 2014-2023, Australian sports administrator; launched AFLW in 2017, signed $2.5 billion broadcast deal, secured Tasmania's 19th AFL licence in 2023, succeeded by Andrew Dillon.
Gills and suspension feeding in bivalves
The gills (ctenidia) of bivalves such as mussels, oysters, and clams drive water currents with cilia, capture particles, and sort food before it reaches the mouth.
Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls is an American comedy-drama series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, airing 2000–2007 on The WB/The CW, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as mother-daughter Lorelai and Rory Gilmore in Stars Hollow, Connecticut, revived by Netflix in 2016 as A Year in the Life.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is Netflix's 2016 four-episode revival of Gilmore Girls, written and directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, ending with Rory's "I'm pregnant" reveal; it leaves Netflix worldwide on November 25, 2026.
Gilmore Junio
Gilmore Junio (born 1990, Calgary) is a Canadian long track speed skater, three-time Olympian in the 500m (2014, 2018, 2022), known for giving his Sochi 2014 1000m spot to Denny Morrison, who won silver.
Giloh
Giloh (Hebrew גִּלֹה, Giyloh) is a town of Judah named in the hill-country list of Joshua 15:51 and known as the home town of Ahithophel, David's counselor; its precise location near Hebron remains unidentified.
Gilroy, California
Gilroy, California: city in southern Santa Clara County, about 25 miles south of San Jose, known as the Garlic Capital of the World; population 59,520 (2020), home of the Gilroy Garlic Festival and recent data center disputes.
Gilsotteum (길소뜸)
Gilsotteum (길소뜸, also Gilsoddeum) is Im Kwon-taek's 1985 South Korean drama-war film, released April 5, 1986, starring Kim Ji-mee and Shin Seong-il as war-separated lovers reunited by the 1983 KBS Finding Dispersed Families telethon; it competed at the 36th Berlinale.
Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje
The Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje, also called the Great Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje, is a 61.8 cm National Treasure excavated in 1993 at Buyeo, South Korea.
Gilt-bronze Standing Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva of Gamsansa Temple
A Unified Silla gilt-bronze standing Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva of the 8th century, designated Treasure no. 927 in 1987 and held at the Leeum Museum in Seoul, though its attribution to Gamsansa Temple is unverified.
Gilt-bronze Standing Maitreya Bodhisattva of Gamsansa Temple
The Standing Maitreya Bodhisattva of Gamsansa Temple is a monumental granite statue carved in 719 during Unified Silla and now held by the National Museum of Korea in Seoul.
Gilt-head bream
Gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata; dorade royale, dorada), a Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic sparid fish and protandrous hermaphrodite, is the leading farmed finfish of Mediterranean aquaculture, with Greece and Turkey producing 72% of world output.
Gilteritinib
Gilteritinib (brand name Xospata) is an oral FLT3 inhibitor approved in the United States in 2018 for relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia with an FLT3 mutation.
Giltine Tesserae
Giltine Tesserae is a 300-km-wide tessera on Venus at 39°S, 250°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Lithuanian bad fate goddess Giltine; one of the smaller of 65 named Venus tesserae.
Gilukhipa
Gilukhipa, also known as Kilushepa, was a Mitannian princess, daughter of King Shuttarna II, sent to Egypt around 1382 BC as a bride for Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Gilwern Volcanic Formation
Gilwern Volcanic Formation (GIVO, Gwn): Llanvirn Middle Ordovician unit of the Builth Volcanic Group in the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier, central Wales; basic lapilli tuffs, reworked tuffaceous sandstones, dacite domes, and the Castle Bank Biota.
GIM mechanism
The GIM mechanism, or Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani mechanism, is a cancellation in electroweak theory, introduced in 1970, that suppresses flavor-changing neutral currents and quantitatively predicted the charm quark, confirmed in 1974.
GIM11-BERGI trial
GIM11-BERGI (NCT02175446) is an Italian Gruppo Italiano Mammella phase II single-arm trial of eribulin plus bevacizumab as second-line therapy for HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer after first-line paclitaxel-bevacizumab, reporting 24.6% response rate and 6.2-month median PFS.
Gimbal
A gimbal, also called a Cardan suspension, is a device of pivoted rings that keeps an object level while its support moves, used in compasses, cameras, and rocket engines.
Gimbal lock
Gimbal lock is the loss of one degree of freedom in a three-gimbal mechanism when two gimbal axes align, leaving the system unable to rotate about one axis.
Gimbal motor
A gimbal motor is a low-KV, high-pole-count direct-drive brushless motor that produces smooth torque at very low speed, used in camera stabilizers, drone gimbals, and precision pointing platforms.
Gimbap (김밥)
Gimbap (김밥) is a Korean dish of seasoned rice and fillings such as spinach, egg, pickled radish, and beef rolled in dried laver. It differs from Japanese norimaki in seasoning, evolved through 1990s specialty shops and franchises, and recently boomed abroad via frozen exports.
Gimbels
Gimbels (Gimbel Brothers) was an American department store chain founded in 1842 in Vincennes, Indiana, by Adam Gimbel; largest US department store company by 1923, owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy's rival, closed 1987.
Gimdoryeong Folk Village
Gimdoryeong Folk Village (김도령민속촌) is a theme park in Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, at 35.23813°N, 128.58519°E, near Masan station, 790 m west.
Gimel
Gimel (ג, גימל) is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, pronounced as a hard g, valued at 3 in gematria, possibly named for a camel, and the ancestor of Greek gamma and Latin C and G.
Gimel function
The gimel function, named after the Hebrew letter gimel, maps each infinite cardinal κ to κ^cf(κ), where cf(κ) is κ's cofinality, and determines cardinal exponentiation.
Gimeracil
Gimeracil (CDHP, 5-chloro-2,4-dihydroxypyridine), a DPD inhibitor in the oral anticancer drug S-1/Teysuno with tegafur and oteracil (1:0.4:1), prolongs 5-FU activity for gastric and colorectal cancer.